Were any of these games commercially released?

[advfan]

While searching Ebay and other venues to find original programs for Farb’s Atari 8-bit Preservation Project I have never seen any of these items offered for sale. In many cases, even doing a Google image search will only show a game screenshot but none for a box or another type of packaging.

 

This is different than Atarimania’s list of undumped software. In some instances you can download a file for it, but this file may come from a prototype, a beta or an unreleased program.

 

Will start with the letter A and add more in the following days:

 

Air Support – Synapse

All-Pro Football - Nexa

Anti Sub Patrol – Roklan

Aquatron – Sierra On-Line

Astron IX – Cosmi

 

Thanks for any info and help.

[+davidcalgary29]

I'm sure 'Air Support' was a commercial release. Wasn't it sold as a double title with 'Quasimodo'?

[www.atarimania.com]

Air Support - sold with Quasimodo only, very hard to find

All-Pro Football - extremely limited release

Anti-Sub Patrol - widely available not that long ago!

Aquatron - not many copies made

Astron IX - exists, just very rare!

 

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[_The Doctor__]

Anti-sub patrol was released. It's not different than the images you can get from Atarimania other than some protections

[advfan]

Yes, from all the titles I listed, Anti Sub-Patrol was the only one were I could also find some graphical evidence of a box, so it's possibly the least rare one, but somehow, I have never seen a copy on Ebay.

 

Thanks for all the replies.

 

I would also like to mention that if any one reading this thread has an original copy of any of these games to consider lending it to the Preservation Project or if you have the necessary equipment, to make a flux dump of it.